Core Requirements

Please note that a GPA of 2.75, both cumulative and in the major, is required for departmental approval to student teach. Major GPA based on all English courses taken at EIU, excluding ENG 0990, 0995, 1000, 1001G, 1002G, 1091G, and 1092G. A grade of C or better is required in each course that applies to the major. For the education course work required for this option, see “Teacher Licensure Programs.”

This option requires that students follow and meet the requirements for Admission, Retention and Graduation from Teacher Licensure programs as described in the “Teacher Licensure Programs” section of this catalog and as explained at the University Admission to Teacher Education Meeting which all students must attend. Additional information on Admission, Retention and Graduation for Teacher Licensure programs can be found on the College of Education website at https://www.eiu.edu/coe/teached.php.

Students must receive a “C” or better in all courses counted toward the English major and in all professional education courses and must maintain a minimum cumulative and major GPA of 2.75 in order to continue in the program.

Students must complete the professional education coursework following the Secondary Education Professional Education Course Sequence. Information is available in the Teacher Licensure Program section of this catalog.

Students must pass the edTPA (teacher performance assessment) before they can receive their teaching license from Illinois or any other state. Students will make their edTPA submission during student teaching.

English with Language Arts Licensure Option

Standard High School Licensure with no minor required.

Semester Hours required for the English with Language Arts Certificate Option: 55 semester hours

English Major Core Courses (16 credits) All of:

• ENG 1105 - English Major Forum. Credits: 1
• ENG 2205 - Introduction to Literary Studies. Credits: 3
• ENG 2901 - Structure of English. Credits: 3
• ENG 2950 - Transatlantic Literary History: Culture, Literacies, and Technologies I. Credits: 3
• ENG 2960 - Transatlantic Literary History: Culture, Literacies, and Technologies II. Credits: 3

English Language Arts Major (Total Semester Hours: 39)

Writing (6 credits)

• ENG 3001 - Advanced Composition. Credits: 3
• ENG 3008 - Digital Writing and Multimodal Texts. Credits: 3

English Education (9 credits)

• ENG 3401 - Methods of Teaching Composition in the Middle and Secondary School. Credits: 3
• ENG 3402 - Methods of Teaching Literature in the Middle and Secondary School. Credits: 3
• ENG 4903 - Young Adult Literature. Credits: 3
• MLE 4280 - Content Area Reading in the Elementary, Middle and Secondary School. Credits: 3

• (Recommended, Not Required)

Literature and Culture before 1800 (3 credits)

• ENG 2601 - Backgrounds of Western Literature. Credits: 3
• ENG 3601A - Studies in Major Writers Before 1800. Credits: 3
• ENG 3604A - Special Topics in Literature and Language Before 1800. Credits: 3
• ENG 3700 - American Literature: 1450 to 1800. Credits: 3
• ENG 3800 - Medieval British Literature. Credits: 3
• ENG 3802 - Shakespeare. Credits: 3
• ENG 3803 - Renaissance and Seventeenth-Century British Literature. Credits: 3
• ENG 3804 - Milton. Credits: 3
• ENG 3805 - Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature. Credits: 3
• ENG 3892 - Shakespeare, Honors. Credits: 3
• ENG 3903A - Women, Literature, and Language, Pre-1800. Credits: 3

Literature and Culture after 1800 (3 credits)

• ENG 3601B - Studies in Major Writers After 1800. Credits: 3
• ENG 3604B - Special Topics in Literature and Language After 1800. Credits: 3
• ENG 3606 - Modern Drama. Credits: 3
• ENG 3701 - American Literature: 1800 to Mid-19th Century. Credits: 3
• ENG 3702 - American Literature: Mid-19th Century to 1900. Credits: 3
• ENG 3703 - American Literature: 1900 to 1950. Credits: 3
• ENG 3704 - American Literature: 1950 to present. Credits: 3
• ENG 3806 - British Romantic Literature. Credits: 3
• ENG 3807 - Victorian Literature. Credits: 3
• ENG 3808 - Modern British Literature. Credits: 3
• ENG 3809 - Contemporary British and Anglophone Literatures. Credits: 3
• ENG 3903B - Women, Literature, and Language, Post-1800. Credits: 3

Genre Studies (3 credits)

• ENG 3606 - Modern Drama. Credits: 3
• ENG 3802 - Shakespeare. Credits: 3

• or

• ENG 3892 - Shakespeare, Honors. Credits: 3
• ENG 4742 - Studies in Genre. Credits: 3
• ENG 2504G - Film and Literature. Credits: 3
• ENG 4904 - Studies in Film. Credits: 3

Multicultural and Non-Western Literatures (6 credits)

• ENG 3705 - American Multicultural Literatures. Credits: 3

• And one of:

• ENG 2705G - African American and Africana Literatures. Credits: 3
• ENG 2850 - Postcolonial Literatures in English. Credits: 3
• ENG 3009G - Myth and Culture. Credits: 3
• ENG 3604D - Special Topics in Multicultural Literatures. Credits: 3
• ENG 3907 - Asian Literatures. Credits: 3
• ENG 4750 - Studies in African American Literature. Credits: 3
• ENG 4850 - Studies in Postcolonial and Third World Literatures. Credits: 3

Capstone Experiences (3 credits)

• ENG 4801 - Integrating the English Language Arts. Credits: 3
• ENG 4060 - English Studies Career Development. Credits: 1

• (Recommended, Not Required)

English Electives (6 credits)

Two additional courses in English, chosen from any of the above or from English Electives.

Two courses in a single foreign language may be counted if numbered 2000 or above, not taught in English, and not offered for Gen Ed credit.

Professional Education Core (34 Credits)

• EDF 2555G - Education in a Diverse Society: The Multilingual/Multicultural Classroom. Credits: 3
• EDF 4550 - Critical Focus on Education. Credits: 3
• EDP 2330 - Educational Psychology/Foundations for Teachers. Credits: 3
• SED 2000 - Inquiry Into Teaching. Credits: 2
• SED 3330 - Instructional Tasks in the Secondary School. Credits: 4
• SED 4330 - Literacy, Assessment, and Differentiation in Secondary Schools. Credits: 3
• SPE 4500 - The Education of Individuals with Exceptional Learning Needs: Access to the General Curriculum. Credits: 3

• (SPE 3500 may be substituted for SPE 4500 if previously taken.)

• STG 4000 - Multicultural/Disabilities Practicum. Credits: 1
• STG 4001 - Student Teaching. Credits: 6 to 16

• (Register for 12 semester hours)

Footnotes:

Concurrent or prior registration in ENG 2205 is strongly recommended for majors in all courses at the 2000-level or above.

Major GPA based on all English courses taken at EIU except ENG 0990, 0995, 1000, 1001G, 1002G, 1091G, 1092G.